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...hagiology of liberal America, Franklin Roosevelt has always been a favorite saint. Herbert Hoover was only slightly less villainous than Judas Iscariot. Now at least a few writers of the radical left are changing the text. In The Greening of America, Yale's Charles Reich argues that the New Deal helped create not only an inhuman corporate state but "a new consciousness that believed primarily in domination and the necessity for living under domination...
...Briticisms comprehensible to Americans, and Americanisms to Britons. The glossary, which has more than 200 Americanisms, advises the newly arrived American housewife that when she goes shopping for diapers, a baby carriage, a flashlight and a vacuum cleaner, she should ask for nappies, a pram, a torch and a hoover. The housewife will find that while there are no eggplants or zucchini in the food stores, aubergines and courgettes taste exactly like them. If she finds it all too baffling and wants to return home, no moving van will pull up to her front door, but a pantechnicon will...
...movement"-"a dedicated quest," as the story explains, "conducted in hundreds of ways and places, to redefine, amplify and enrich the spirit of social man." Much of the reportage on the East Coast and in the Middle West was provided by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, while in Los Angeles Eleanor Hoover viewed the movement through her experience as a onetime psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Further attended came from Reporter Andrea Svedberg, who attended a ten-day course on various aspects of the movement at Esalen Institute. During one act discussion, the psychiatrist suggested that each person...
...book smacks more of hard work than of paste; besides, there was precious little published material about Orangeburg to cut up. Bass plans no further reply to Hoover. As for Nelson, he has not heard from Hoover...
...fact that J. Edgar Hoover addressed his complaints about The Orangeburg Massacre only to Jack Bass is no mere coincidence. The FBI stopped talking to Jack Nelson last year-an acknowledgment of his more than 20 years of extraordinary muckraking in the South...